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Doghouse designed by Frank Lloyd Wright in 1957, at the request of Jim Berger for his dog Eddie [photograph]

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Title: Doghouse designed by Frank Lloyd Wright in 1957, at the request of Jim Berger for his dog Eddie [photograph]
Creator: unknown
Date Created and/or Issued: circa 1963
Publication Information: Marin County Free Library, Anne T. Kent California Room
Contributing Institution: Marin County Free Library
Collection: Frank Lloyd Wright and the Marin County Civic Center
Rights Information: unknown
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Description: In 1956, 12-year-old Jim Berger, whose dad was building himself a house in San Anselmo designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, wrote to Wright asking for plans for a compatible doghouse for his black lab named Eddie. Wright provided plans the next year, but building it from scraps from the main house was delayed because the main house was under construction for many years. When Jim joined the army at 19, his dad and brother Eric finally built the doghouse. But Eddie refused to use in it, preferring to sleep in the warmth next to the main house, so in 1970, Jim’s mom sent the unused doghouse to the dump. In 2010, Jim and his brother built a new doghouse, from the original plans, for a documentary film called Romanza. However, it had one flaw common to many of Wright’s buildings, including the Marin County Civic Center: The roof leaked. Description provided by Jerry Johannessen.
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print, b&w
Identifier: csrcl_1357
Berger doghouse
http://contentdm.marinlibrary.org/cdm/ref/collection/flw/id/33
Language: English
Subject: Architecture, Domestic
Organic architecture--California
Doghouses
Dogs
Wright, Frank Lloyd, 1867-1959
Berger, Robert
Berger, Jim
Berger, Eric
Place: San Anselmo (Calif.)
Marin County (Calif.)
Relation: http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/kt0q2nc5z2
http://marinlibrary.org/californiaroom

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